When it's broken it can be expensive, but frankly it doesn't break that
often.
-Adam
On 9/6/2019 12:29 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Except the contractor gets paid every time the fiber gets broken.
On 9/6/19 12:18 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
If you've only got 2 or 3 people *total* then you'd be relying on
contractors a lot and basically just being an owner/GC. Your capex
will be higher than with in-house labor, but console yourself with
the idea that the contractor only gets paid once, and you get paid
for 50 years.
-Adam
On 9/6/2019 8:30 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
People ask why I don’t do fiber. The following story pretty much
sums it up. For those doing fiber, how do you do it with a 2 or 3
man team? We’d be run ragged. How do you stay sain?
Someone was logging up in Ogdensburg near Joe Hill and took a tree
down which took another tree down which took another tree down which
snapped off the side arms of the utility pole taking out the
powerlines which burned the fiber underneath it.
Last night about 11 o’clock I drove up there on my way home and
found the Crown Castle guys trying to figure out where the fiber
damage was, I talk to them for a moment and they were like yeah it’s
like 2500 feet away from here but we can’t figure out where the
fiber goes, I said follow me, so they got over there and started work.
Zito was already over there fixing their fiber with about 10 guys
and five trucks.
I just spun back up there and as of this morning they (both
companies) are still trying to figure out why the fiber is not working.
Add to this the utility easement is on the side of a mountain and
not right beside the road. These guys had entire teams and haven’t
fixed 1,500ft of fiber in 12 hours plus had to wait nearly 7hrs to
even access the local due to power lines down.
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